The thing we didn't mention was that before we left we spoke to Ron and Linda about Venice. Linda told me about a shop that sells wine out of the barrel into a container that you bring into the shop. We were going to go looking for the shop in the next day or two, but on the first night we were there we stumbled across it on our way to the Vaparetto heading home. Joan didn't have a container so she bought one of theirs they only had 1.5 L containers in stock so four €3.20 Joan got 1.5 L of really good red wine.

We were only in Venice for a couple of days so she had to drink fast. The urgency was exacerbated by the fact that she kept forgetting to drink her wine. She ended up finishing the wine on a bench in Milan before we got on the plane to Dublin.